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Omatistic Spectrum Disorder

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Question: Has anyone seen a blog post/article/comment etc. that turns the idea of 'autism' being the 'alternate' way of being on it's head and instead treats being 'NT' as the 'disability'... something like replacing 'Autism/autistic' with 'Omatism/Omatistic' (using the Greek for 'Group' instead of the Greek for 'Self' as the root)?
The more I read around what being 'on the spectrum' means the more I see it defined in terms of deviation from NT 'norms'...
I'd be interested to see it presented the other way - I think it would be really helpful in learning to understand how these weirdo's think!
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  • ...To confess, I am not sure why this Thread has gone off at the (long post) tangent which it has, discussing "evolution" and all... but this next is something which I recently posted upon another Thread which has as yet gained no reactions. Perhaps it might do so here. (Upon yet another unrelated Thread?)

    " ...This is my main attempt at a reply. Nature indeed wires brains to be different. The problem is that most of us are not living in "Nature", but that we are (likely) forced to live in an Un-natural environment. This means Cities, cement, tarmacadam, carbonizing-radiation... all of that.

    Yet although cities pretend that they are self-sufficient, they do get thier food and air and water from Nature. Thus Nature carries on, while "Civilisation" ignores Nature but actually cannot thrive without it. I hope this makes sense so far.

    Back to Autism and Brains being wired differently... this - to Me anyway - explains a lot of different "autistic traits", such as sensitivity to excessive noise, smells, tastes, touches, and so forth. It is too much to detail in this already long Post. And, most of all, I can only wait to recieve understanding as to what I try to say here. "

    End of my previous Post. AGAIN.   (...)

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  • ...To confess, I am not sure why this Thread has gone off at the (long post) tangent which it has, discussing "evolution" and all... but this next is something which I recently posted upon another Thread which has as yet gained no reactions. Perhaps it might do so here. (Upon yet another unrelated Thread?)

    " ...This is my main attempt at a reply. Nature indeed wires brains to be different. The problem is that most of us are not living in "Nature", but that we are (likely) forced to live in an Un-natural environment. This means Cities, cement, tarmacadam, carbonizing-radiation... all of that.

    Yet although cities pretend that they are self-sufficient, they do get thier food and air and water from Nature. Thus Nature carries on, while "Civilisation" ignores Nature but actually cannot thrive without it. I hope this makes sense so far.

    Back to Autism and Brains being wired differently... this - to Me anyway - explains a lot of different "autistic traits", such as sensitivity to excessive noise, smells, tastes, touches, and so forth. It is too much to detail in this already long Post. And, most of all, I can only wait to recieve understanding as to what I try to say here. "

    End of my previous Post. AGAIN.   (...)

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